On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:57 PM, David Fang wrote:

> There isn't anything we can do about Apple's decision, unfortunately.
> Unless you actually intend to use the java interface for ppl, it  
> shouldn't
> be an issue if this package drops the Java module in the future.

I haven't checked to see if any Fink packages use the Java module, but  
Fink's dependency engine seems to be better about handling cases where  
a single .info file with splitoffs is converted into two or more .info  
files (carve-offs?), each with a reduced set of BuildDepends.

This way, the base ppl package wouldn't need to depend on Java, but  
there would still be a Java option if someone has installed all the  
external dependencies. The nice thing for end users is that if it's  
the same source file, they most likely already have it in /sw/src (and  
they won't need to re-download it for the Java carve-off).

Barring any general objections from the list, let me know if you want  
help testing something like that. I could probably remove the Java  
headers from one of my machines here and not run into any other  
problems outside Fink.

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